英文标题:
《Parallel Experimentation in a Competitive Advertising Marketplace》
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作者:
Xiliang Lin and Harikesh S. Nair and Navdeep S. Sahni and Caio Waisman
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最新提交年份:
2019
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英文摘要:
When multiple firms are simultaneously running experiments on a platform, the treatment effects for one firm may depend on the experimentation policies of others. This paper presents a set of causal estimands that are relevant to such an environment. We also present an experimental design that is suitable for facilitating experimentation across multiple competitors in such an environment. Together, these can be used by a platform to run experiments \"as a service,\" on behalf of its participating firms. We show that the causal estimands we develop are identified nonparametrically by the variation induced by the design, and present two scalable estimators that help measure them in typical high-dimensional situations. We implement the design on the advertising platform of JD.com, an eCommerce company, which is also a publisher of digital ads in China. We discuss how the design is engineered within the platform\'s auction-driven ad-allocation system, which is typical of modern, digital advertising marketplaces. Finally, we present results from a parallel experiment involving 16 advertisers and millions of JD.com users. These results showcase the importance of accommodating a role for interactions across experimenters and demonstrates the viability of the framework.
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中文摘要:
当多家公司同时在一个平台上进行实验时,一家公司的治疗效果可能取决于其他公司的实验政策。本文提出了一组与这种环境相关的因果估计。我们还提出了一种实验设计,该设计适合在这样的环境中促进多个竞争对手的实验。总之,这些可以被平台用来代表其参与公司“作为服务”进行实验。我们证明了我们开发的因果估计是通过设计引起的变化非参数地识别的,并给出了两个可伸缩的估计量,有助于在典型的高维情况下测量它们。我们在京东广告平台上实现了该设计。com,一家电子商务公司,也是中国数字广告的出版商。我们将讨论如何在平台拍卖驱动的广告分配系统中进行设计,这是现代数字广告市场的典型特征。最后,我们展示了一项涉及16位广告商和数百万JD的平行实验的结果。com用户。这些结果显示了在实验者之间的交互中扮演一个角色的重要性,并证明了该框架的可行性。
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分类信息:
一级分类:Economics 经济学
二级分类:General Economics 一般经济学
分类描述:General methodological, applied, and empirical contributions to economics.
对经济学的一般方法、应用和经验贡献。
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一级分类:Quantitative Finance 数量金融学
二级分类:Economics 经济学
分类描述:q-fin.EC is an alias for econ.GN. Economics, including micro and macro economics, international economics, theory of the firm, labor economics, and other economic topics outside finance
q-fin.ec是econ.gn的别名。经济学,包括微观和宏观经济学、国际经济学、企业理论、劳动经济学和其他金融以外的经济专题
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一级分类:Statistics 统计学
二级分类:Applications 应用程序
分类描述:Biology, Education, Epidemiology, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Medical, Physical Sciences, Quality Control, Social Sciences
生物学,教育学,流行病学,工程学,环境科学,医学,物理科学,质量控制,社会科学
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